Editing Bobby Seale (section)

=== New Haven Black Panther trials ===
[[File:Demonstratie voor vrijlating van Zwarte Panter leider Bobby Seale in Amsterdam, Bestanddeelnr 923-3470.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Demonstration for Black Panther Bobby Seale in Amsterdam March 14, 1970]]
While serving his four-year sentence, Seale was tried in 1970 as part of the [[New Haven Black Panther trials]]. Several officers of the Panther organization had killed fellow Panther, [[Alex Rackley]], who had confessed under torture to being a police informant.<ref name="twocases">{{cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1978/2/78.02.09.x.html |title=Two Controversial Cases in New Haven History: The Amistad Affair (1839) and The Black Panther Trials (1970) |publisher=Yale University |access-date=March 25, 2013}}</ref> The leader of the murder plan, [[George W. Sams Jr.]], turned state's evidence and testified that Seale, who had visited New Haven hours before the murder, had ordered him to kill Rackley. The trials were accompanied by a large demonstration in New Haven on [[May Day]], 1970. This coincided with the beginning of the American college [[student strike of 1970]]. The jury was unable to reach a verdict in Seale's trial, and the charges were eventually dropped. The government suspended his contempt convictions, and Seale was released from prison in 1972.<ref name="Spartacus" />

While Seale was in prison, his wife, Artie, became pregnant. Fellow Panther Fred Bennett was said to be the father. Bennett's mutilated remains were found in a suspected Panther hideout in April 1971.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/133186785/ |title=Remote Panther Hideout was Slaying Scene |newspaper=The Palm Beach Post |date=April 21, 1971 |page=A4 |url-access=subscription |access-date=January 25, 2021 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> Seale was implicated in the murder, with police suspecting he had ordered it in retaliation for the affair, but no charges were pressed.<ref>Jama Lazerow, Yohuru R. Williams. ''In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement''. Duke University Press. 2006, p. 170.</ref>